Lively Architecture Festival 2016

Selected Teams and projects presentation

Montpellier, France, 2016-02-26 -

Lively Architecture Festival aims to raise public awareness of the wide range of architecture. It seeks not only to highlight the work of a younger generation of architects, landscape architects, urban planners but also to discover unexpected urban areas.

Two targets are set. On the one hand, open to visitors during the festival these landmarks. On the other hand, through the intervention of the creative teams present a work specific to each place and reveal an intimate relationship between contemporary architecture and heritage sites. This Festival proposes during 3 weeks, 19 sites where the facilities takes place on the thematic “Innovate” for this 11th edition of the Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier and 4th in La Grande Motte.

These achievements ephemeral small-scale projects, take possession of the sites during the festival.

This year announces an exceptional colaboration with Concéntrico. This festival was create by Javier Peña Ibañez. He creates in 2015 the first edition of the festival Concéntrico to Logroño in the region of La Rioja in Spain.

In this context, architects team selected by Concéntrico will make an installation during the FAV of La Grande Motte and architects team having participated in the FAV will make an installation for Logroño. The team selected by the FAV to participate in Concéntrico is composed of Gabrielle Vinson, Quentin Devoyer and Edwin Toledo. This festival will take place from April 28th till May 1st, 2016!

With the “Innovate” thematic, 18 teams and one invited university will present to you theirs work through a route in the city of Montpellier and La Grande Motte.

You will discover the 10 installation of the young architects + one of the invited university, The School of Architecture of Toulouse, in the city center of Montpellier.